Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- 9 Physical Development of Toddlers
- 10 Cognitive Development of Toddlers
- 11 Social and Emotional Development of Toddlers
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
10 - Cognitive Development of Toddlers
from Part 4 - Toddlerhood
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- 9 Physical Development of Toddlers
- 10 Cognitive Development of Toddlers
- 11 Social and Emotional Development of Toddlers
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
Summary
‘What's One and One and One and One?’
‘Can you do addition?’ the White Queen asked. ‘What's one and one and one and one and one and one?’
‘I don't know’, said Alice. ‘I lost count.’
‘She can't do Addition, the Red Queen interrupted. ‘Can you do Subtraction? Take nine from eight’.
‘Nine from eight I can't, you know,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘But –’
‘She can't do Subtraction’, said the White Queen. ‘Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what's the answer to that?’
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking GlassKEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Schema
Constructive argument
Sensori-motor period
Tertiary circular motion
Equilibration
Crystallised intelligence
Fluid intelligence
Mental age
Chronological age
Intelligence quotient
Intelligence tests
Zone of proximal development
Postnatal depression
Introduction
Accompanying the toddler's considerable advances in physical development are changes in the way the child thinks (advances that would go some way towards eventually helping Alice answer the questions put to her by the White Queen and the Red Queen!). In this chapter consideration is given to the toddler's increasingly sophisticated ways of thinking about the world. The concept of intelligence is discussed and various theoretical approaches to the study of cognition are outlined. As I have noted in chapters 3 and 7, a significant contributor to our knowledge in this field is Jean Piaget, but even though his first research was published between 1924 and 1932, his work was not recognised in Australia until the 1960s.
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- Child, Adolescent and Family Development , pp. 202 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002